PALMER – The town of Palmer has scheduled an auction for Oct. 25 at the Town Building on Main Street that will feature four town-owned properties, including one that was the target of a protest last year when officials attempted to evict the man living there.

That property – 3157-3129 Main St. – is a two-family home in the Bondsville section that has a total of 1,925 square feet.

The first attempt to evict the man who lived there, Joseph “Jay” Noone, was in June 2011.

The auction will be conducted by The Zekos Group of Shrewsbury, which has handled Palmer’s two previous auctions, netting $312,500 for the town. The properties can be viewed on the company’s website, zekosgroup.com

Also slated to be auctioned is 81 Mt. Dumplin St., featuring a single-family, split-level home on .44 acres and a contiguous vacant land parcel that is just under 1 acre. The home has 1,276 square feet of living space.

A Colonial-style single-family home at 42 Commercial St. in the Thorndike section is on the list, featuring 1,559 square feet of living area on .38 acres. The property is described as being in disrepair.

The last property on the list is a vacant parcel at 1532 North Main St. which totals 6,850 square feet and has 121 feet of frontage. Deposits of $5,000 are required on all the properties except the North Main Street parcel, which requires a $2,500 deposit.

Town Manager Charles T. Blanchard and Treasurer-Collector Paul A. Nowicki both said the intent of the auction is to return these properties back to the tax rolls. A total of $129,000 was owed on the parcels, but that has been “wiped out” now that they have been gone through the foreclosure process, Nowicki said.

“Hopefully there will be a lot of competitive bids,” Nowicki said.

Energy Thorndike, the former Cascades Diamond complex in the Thorndike section, has agreed to pay the town approximately $200,000 it owes in back taxes by the end of the month, according to Nowicki. He said the owner has paid the town $170,000 so far to settle its outstanding tax bills. Energy Thorndike’s debt was discussed by officials last month after a discussion about the town's efforts to collect back taxes on problem properties.